For Edoardo Caovilla, creating an exquisite pair of shoes isn’t a question of time. But rather, it’s a question of expertise.
“I’m always asked, ‘How many hours do you need to make a pair of shoes?’ And I say, ‘Guys, it is never a question of time!’ If you want an answer, it is between eight and 12 hours, but it is not the time that you need to make shoes, but how many generations of secrets and knowledge you need to build that shoe. That is different,” he says.
A person, if given a pile of those 42 pieces would be unable to successfully assemble a René Caovilla shoe, then?Caovilla recalls how not even skilled artisans are able to reproduce his family’s shoes. But the business hasn’t always been easy for Caovilla. Stepping into the design role in 2010, and attached to the family name as he is, he recalls how he had to fight to prove himself in the fashion world.
“At that time, honestly, it was a need. Because my father was turning 72 — he is still with us today at 81 — he was too far from the customers. It’s the same thing that happened to Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani. We cannot judge them. They are King George and King , but they are too far from the customer. There are too many generations in the middle,” he says. “If there is a jump of 10-20 years. It’s OK. If there’s a jump of 60-70 years, it is not.
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